“It hasn’t really changed anything in my life. If anything, it took the weight off of the conversation… I’m here having a good time,” he told us at the IFC Center last week.

Since our report, Tortorella has launched podcast “The Love Bomb” — which he says is the “No. 1 podcast in sexuality, gender and health.”

“We’ve ‘exploded’ for a lack of a better word,” he said of his new venture. “It’s me talking to people — some people who are really close to me, some I don’t know that well — about love, gender, sexuality, relationships and how difficult we all are.”